I'll verify Garmin's corporate profile and the referenced litigation.
Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN) — commonly known as Garmin — is a publicly traded manufacturer founded in 1989 and headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with its principal U.S. operations in Olathe, Kansas. It is an independent operating company (no parent), with roughly 23,000 employees and fiscal 2025 revenue of approximately $7.2 billion, per its 10-K and market data providers. Founders Gary Burrell and Min Kao remain associated with the company; Min Kao is executive chairman.
Products / operations: Garmin designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled and sensor-based products and services across five segments: fitness, outdoor, aviation, marine, and auto OEM. Its lineup includes wearable fitness and adventure watches, handheld and automotive navigation devices, aviation avionics (OEM and aftermarket), marine electronics including chartplotters and sonar, and OEM-installed automotive domain controllers and infotainment components. The company reports having delivered more than 300 million products since inception, including over 20 million in fiscal 2025.
Patent-litigation posture: Garmin is an operating company that appears in the tracked data solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). Its single tracked matter is a defensive posture — being named as a respondent rather than asserting patents. This is consistent with a large consumer-electronics maker facing infringement claims rather than a patent-assertion entity.
Notable case: Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer et al., filed July 2012 at the U.S. International Trade Commission (Inv. No. 337-TA-853, "Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices and Components Thereof"). Complainants Technology Properties Limited LLC, Phoenix Digital Solutions LLC, and Patriot Scientific Corporation — patent-holding/licensing entities — asserted U.S. Patent No. 5,809,336 (and related patents) against Garmin Ltd., Garmin International, Inc., and Garmin USA, Inc., alongside roughly two dozen other respondents including Acer, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, HTC, LG, Nintendo, Samsung, and ZTE. A parallel district-court suit in the Northern District of California was stayed pending the ITC investigation, which produced a final initial determination of no violation as to Garmin.